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Also, congratulations to Lunar on those 4000 posts and his continuing commitment to the community!

I found this article on how to dress properly more informative than it probably should have been.

That's an almost $500 motherboard with a fan that has at best a 12-month lifespan. Something like that might be more interesting if a reputable vendor gets around to building one with a proper cooling arrangement.

I see a 40 or 60mm fan on that heatsink looking bit over the north bridge, which leads to the obvious question: Why would anyone WANT to play with that?

It'll happen. Personally RDP is something that makes "Professional" versions of Windows worth the extra money, and any number of server admins no doubt agree with me.

Just like with DVDs, sometimes they update the protection and you have to wait for it to get broken again. Thinking back, the only BD title I ever had playback issues with was Wall-E, and I more than halfway suspect Disney tried to do some extra antipiracy stuff with that disc.

I just looked at the settings on one of my servers until I found it. If your configuration is weird there's nothing I can do about that. ;) Anyway, Filezilla is a beautiful thing for your FTPing needs.

Here's a set of directions for making Win7's XP Mode work with an unsupported CPU.

FTP Firewall Settings

It's happened before. I'm slightly annoy about it right now, though, because it's holding up a larger order.

Are we at Neosporin bleeding or Ambulance bleeding?

You are not looking in the right place. I do 5GB+ torrents probably every single night. And usually they're complete by the time I get up in the morning.

High definition video. Otherwise, no comment.

IT has the same problem: You can't teach somebody to be legitimately good at it. Bad students (most of mine, really) learn by rote, but the rote lesson never applies to reality. Anyway, I just finished a ~400GB torrent download that I'd been working on for the last 10 months. 10 years ago...

In the area around Chicago, there are county and municipal-level sales taxes. Almost every town has them. They're a fact of life. As for what we're paying for, the basic answer is probably a lot more infrastructure than you guys have down in Oz. We drive everyplace, litigate at the drop of a...

This is very, very much how I feel. I hated every minute of getting my BSCS and only got one because I wanted to be qualified to work in IT. I really wish I had gotten my degree in something I actually enjoy. I've thought about going for another degree just for giggles, but I don't really want...

Single cable connection for audio and video, plus a level of sound quality from some sources (Bluray Discs) that is not available otherwise.

Yeah. The UD6. I only put 8GB in it though.

Gigabyte has an 1156 board with 6 DIMM slots. I sold a system on one a couple weeks ago.

I've been known to do them, just because every once in a while a vastly better CPU falls in my lap and I can cascade out something older. I switched an AMD x2/5200 for an AM2+ Phenom Quad core not too long ago. The x2 went in a super cheap spare parts build I'm going to use around my office.

Not by the end of the year. LGA1366 has always been an odd duck. After 1156 came along Intel claimed 1366 was a hobbyist technology and that the extra pins to the CPU were for triple channel RAM and other hobbyist wankfest toys. I guess we'll see 1156 and then some new oddball, probably will...

Remember that i7s self-overclock by about 10% in actual operation. So your 2.6GHz i7 will turn into 2.8something once it gets going.

Meh. The guy who was spouting off about it on Slashdot said it was dual. I didn't actually look.

Can you actually get a dual i7-based Xeon in an SFF chassis?

It just reminded me of the last several months of discussions on this very topic. Greg, you need to spend less time looking at goofy benchmarks. Seriously. The way you're describing the computer you want to have seems to be by the benchmark score that it achieves. You sound like my brother when...

Oldversion.com probably has it. Or you could take two seconds to turn off extension compatibility checking.

There's always the Asus and Auzentech cards.

The Greg Santilli Memorial 100% Impractical Laptop: The Eurocom D900F Panther Dual Xeon 5590s, up to four 512GB SSDs or standard 3.5" drives, 17" screen, Geforce 280. No idea how much it weighs or how long the battery lasts. I suspect 15lbs. and 15 minutes, respectively. No word on whether or...

Symbian? Really? I really was interested in WM7 and depending on the phone selection Sprint offers, it might still be a competitor, but a focus on gaming a media isn't really what I want out of a phone.

Turn off Adblock Plus. I believe we already discussed how to turn off extension compatibility checking. It's not a big deal.

Verizon (one of the CDMA carriers) wants to control every possible aspect of their service. They load a proprietary interface on every non-smartphone they sell, charge to unlock features that are available on the same handset with other carriers and then charge a monthly fee on top of that to...

You clearly don't own enough computers.

It might be better in numerous ways to set them up with some Terminal Server CALs and a central server for that data.

Unless you have Win7 Starter edition...

Centralized storage, simplified backup, less heat and noise compared to a full fledged file server and possibly some nifty appliance features that aren't in whatever desktop OS you'd be using to serve files.

Anyone have a crummy SSD? Flashfire is supposed to help improve SSD performance on Windows XP for some of the cases where crummy SSDs typically falter. You can read more about it in the link.

Solarwinds ip Monitor will monitor the hell out of network connections and devices in a very manager-friendly sort of way, but it's 20 times more expensive than Handy's product. How often are these 90MB files changing that they need to be re-replicated? Have you looked at FRSDiag yet?

You're already doing Mozy, right? I can see the P2P thing as potentially helpful for restores, but without some kind of service agreement and a huge number of buddies I not sure how much I'd trust something like that over and above the generally pretty reasonable cost for Mozy on a single...

I paid $212 (state tax) for my specific phone and eventually got a $100 rebate check from back from HTC. Do you need to see my receipt? Just like the current hot phone from Sprint is the Pre (currently $299 with a $100 rebate), so was my phone at the time. I'm not sure if the same benefit ever...

I think my killer app would just be to have MOAR BITTORRENTS PLS. :D Seriously though, the main things I can think of just involve having better access to the tons of infrastructure stuff that's already in my apartment, like virtual machines and media files.

You can also turn on S3 suspend in your BIOS and reference your main machine by its IP rather than its network name in your mapped network drives. That will allow it to be awakened by network requests (for some reason, Windows machines wake up a lot faster when you make network requests by IP...

Yes, but you ignored the discount for signing a two year contract. The iphone is $600 or $700 without a contract, so the out of pocket on the Touch2 will be lower regardless. 1. It's $200 - $300 cheaper. 2. Yes, the Touch2 runs WinMo 6.5 (my phone could; it's the same hardware, but it's...

SERO was available to the general public until about this time last year. They even provided a generic email address to use for the "referral" (I think it was something like "sero@sprint.com"). Anyone who did the tiniest bit of googling could find out about it and sign up for it. They don't...

My service plan (Sprint SERO) is $35 a month and I got my phone for $100. Faster, truly unlimited internet service (I have no 5GB/month cap), tethering, GPS and landline-quality calls all included in that price. All-in-all, that's less than half what an iphone + service plan winds up costing...

This time, you have to. In the future, it might be useful to number your SATA cables so they correspond to the ordinal number of the port as it's reported by Windows. Yes, this means testing the drives one at a time regardless.

Unfortunately, you can't buy an iPhone that's actually functional for anything but AT&T's shitty network (yes, OK, you can jailbreak one and use it on Tmobile, but then you're either still paying for AT&T's service or you're not getting it for $300), and if you are getting the phone for $300...

I look at that stuff so often I just know how much stuff costs regardless. Newegg and Amazon are places I go to look a pricing. If Newegg wants $5 to ship a drive, Amazon's price is usually $3 cheaper by the time free shipping is factored in. Spitting that data out into an RSS feed might be a...

I'm not arguing that Sunbelt is a good name, just that I've never heard of their antivirus product. If it's OK, that's good, but it goes in the pile with NOD32 and Kaspersky as something I might evaluate at some point when I need corporate licenses again for some reason. MSSE is not pre-release...

The case they're talking about in your link has 20 3.5" drives and a SATA/SAS backplane. They're about $250 pretty much everyplace. I have four of them already.

The Expander card is $250, minimum, which is still a bargain. You've got to have another SAS controller, figure that'll be $150. You need a chassis ($250), power supply (probably at least $100) and enough drives to make something like this actually interesting. Figure $2500 to put something...